A Popular Online Course Provider Loses Fans Among Colleges

StraighterLine offers introductory courses that colleges can accept for credit. But some of its campus partners are thinking twice about the deal.

An Unconventional Meeting of Minds

A Harvard law professor gathers activists on the right and left to consider the impact of a possible constitutional convention on the country's foundation.

College Spending Trends Show Students Bearing a Growing Share of the Costs

The latest Delta Cost Project report says community colleges bore the brunt of decreased higher-education spending and notes a widening gap between rich and poor colleges.

Community Colleges Get Lots of Attention, but a Shrinking Share of Dollars

The colleges' mission in educating low-income and underprepared students could be jeopardized by limited public support.

5 Years Later: the Impact of Spellings

How much has changed since the former education secretary's commission called for sweeping reform five years ago today? The Chronicle examines the details.

The Unwitting Damage Done by the Spellings Commission

Today's regulatory process helps discourage all but the most foolhardy colleges from trying anything innovative.

Scholars of Legal Brothels Offer a New Take on the 'Oldest Profession'

Nevada offers a unique laboratory for researchers interested in whether women can be prostitutes without being oppressed or exposed to violence.

Nebraska Regents Adopt Plan to Curb Credit Creep

To help students graduate more quickly and at lower cost, university leaders capped the number of credits needed to finish most bachelor's degrees at 120.

Florida May Be Next Battleground Over Faculty Productivity

Faculty in the state are concerned about their governor's interest in gathering feedback on a proposal to overhaul higher education in Texas.

College 2.0: Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

Fearing that governments or commercial powers will intensify Internet monitoring and restriction, technically minded types devise an approach called a "mesh network."

Students Design Low-Tech Ways to Help Improve Lives of Rural Poor

In an unusual international conference led by MIT, students present prototypes, not papers.

Carnegie Mellon U. to Open Campus in Rwanda, a Milestone for Africa

The Pittsburgh-based institution will be the first American university to operate a full-fledged campus in Africa, an expert says.

Students' Dreams of Big-Time Sports Unnerve a Wary Faculty

Students are pushing a move to Division I, just as California slashes budgets.

In Authors' Suit Against Libraries, an Attempt to Wrest Back Some Control Over Digitized Works

The Authors Guild and other writers' groups are asking the court to lock up "unauthorized" digital copies at five university libraries and HathiTrust until Congress acts.

Michael Hart, Who Defined the Landscape of Digital Publishing, Dies at 64

Mr. Hart founded the Gutenberg Project, the birthplace of the e-book.

Temple U. Doctors Pedal for Charity

For a team of medical cyclists, fund raising is like riding a bicycle.

College Radio Stations Join Forces to Send Out a Strong Signal on October 11

Staff members at William Paterson University's WPSC-FM are leading a movement to celebrate College Radio Day next month, with the goal of ensuring the medium's future.

Why I Can No Longer Teach U.S. Military History

Most of the class was looking more for solace than for lessons in America's military past.

A Multidimensional Challenge for Black Colleges

Leaders of these institutions need to take a good look around—and ahead, behind, and within.

Obama's Best Bet: $5-Billion for Community Colleges

The colleges can use the money wisely and well, improving and expanding their facilities to prepare millions more students for jobs.

Can Courses in the 'Fierce Humanities' Stand Up to Assessment?

"The fact that these events constitute extraordinary crimes against humanity does not mean that the courses in which they are discussed should be exempted from assessment."

My Lost Library

A library, even in its absence, speaks volumes.

Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?

Several generations of psychotropic drugs have proven to be of little or no benefit, and may be doing considerable harm.

Rethinking Chesterton

The darling of Anglophiles and conservatives was also, as revivified in a new biography, fiercely independent, wittily contrarian, and a natural democrat.

3-D Is Comin' at Ya!

Hollywood once again seeks box-office volume in the third dimension. But many critics say the trend falls flat.

Serious Science, in a Comic Book

Serious comic books make inroads with academic publishers and high-profile scholars like Richard Dawkins.

Starting Over, With a Bad Attitude

It's hard heading back to grad school when you know too much about postgraduate life.

The Politics (or Not) of Vegetarianism

Big-Tent Digital Humanities: a View From the Edge, Part 2

A key problem in this growing subfield is that most people don't know much about it.